Teach For America, #StayWoke: Social Justice through Hashtag Activism, April 30, 2016
This event asked presenters to consider how social media helps or hinders one’s ability to #StayWoke, while also considering how online tools can be used to promote messages of social consciousness effectively.
The full program for this event can be found here.
Harvard College Women’s Week, Policing Bodies: The Hypersexualization of Women of Color, Feb. 29, 2016
This panel covered the ways that women of color are hypersexualized in the media, in romantic relationships, and beyond. Touching on timely subjects, such as hook-up culture on college campuses, panelists discussed ways that women of color can (and do!) combat hypersexuality in their everyday lives. This event was sponsored by Harvard’s Asian American Women’s Association, Latinas Unidas, and the Association of Black Harvard Women as part of Harvard’s Women’s Week 2016.
Boston University, Missing Voices: Erasure of Black Women in Black American Movements, Nov. 5, 2015
In recognizing that Black women are often great leaders in Black social movements, this panel critiqued the erasure of Black women and queer Black communities in broad discussions of the #BlackLivesMatter and Civil Rights Movements to better understand why and how their roles are dismissed. This event was livestreamed and the video footage can be accessed here.
Boston University, 50 Years Later: A Discussion on Voting
Rights and Mass Incarceration in 2015, April 7, 2015
This panel discussion focused on the ways that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the current state of mass incarceration in America inform one another and intersect with other important social, public health, and criminal justice issues. I had the pleasure of planning the event as well as framing the conversation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies’ ‘Power & (In)Visibility’ Symposium, March 28, 2015
I presented a portion of my Master’s research during the “Place/Space” panel. This panel addressed the roles of place and space as they work to reinscribe stratified identities and their relative (in)visibilities.
Harvard University, Black Twitter: New Age Xpression, February 16, 2015
This event, hosted by Harvard’s Black Student Association, kicked off the Chi Nupes’ 2015 Kappa Week. As a panelist, I discussed the the role of social media in the Black community, the impact it has, and what social media, particularly Twitter, represents in and for Black culture at present.
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